White Sox trade for OF Buck Coats

KC 610 Sports Radio (twitter) (via MLBTR):

Royals trade AAA Omaha OF Buck Coats to the White Sox for cash considerations.

Stats: FI, B-R

Last year (Age 28) @ AAA: .302/.360/.416/.776 with 47 BB / 64 K in 527 PAs. .338 wOBA. .337 BABIP.

UPDATE: Merkin (WhiteSox.com beat writer) says Coats will play for Birmingham.

John Sickels’ mock draft

Sickels:

13) Chicago White Sox: Bryce Brentz, OF, Middle Tennessee State University

The White Sox like tools and Brentz has those. He also has the college background they have preferred in recent early picks.

Ozzie Guillen on getting fired

Will you ever quit Ozzie?

“(I’ll get) fired because I’m not a quitter. When I want to quit, I’ll do a lot of stupid things to make sure they fire me and get paid. No, I think getting fired is better because when you quit it’s hard for you to find another job because I think if you quit, a lot teams out there are going to think you’re a quitter or you can’t handle yourself or you can’t handle the heat, you can’t handle losing and it’s tough to get a job.”

Stupid things like using Juan Pierre and Mark Kotsay as regulars and running Jim Thome out of town?

Justin Smoak hits HR #2 (video)

Another no-doubter

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7817987 (0:44)